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CULTURED revisits four collector questionnaires from Pride Month, featuring Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall (the Icy Gays), Chad Leat, and Ilan Cohen. Each collector shares their personal journey, motivations, and the LGBTQ+ artists they champion, including Salman Toor, Dominique Fung, Anna Weyant, Roni Horn, John Giorno, Wolfgang Tillmans, Doron Langberg, Louis Fratino, and TM Davy. The article offers intimate glimpses into their homes and collections, highlighting how they discovered art, built relationships with dealers, and navigated collecting from remote or non-traditional locations.

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Vhernier hosted an elegant private reception in Los Angeles to unveil a new jewelry collection designed by LA-based multidisciplinary artist Pae White. The event, held at the home of esteemed collector and Museo Jumex founder Eugenio López, brought together a global crowd including MOCA board chair Carolyn Powers, gallerist Francesca Kaufmann, curator Valérie-Anne Giscard d’Estaing, visual artist Jwan Yosef, and Chanel’s President of Arts, Culture & Heritage Yana Peel. The collection, inspired by a crab’s exoskeleton, is crafted in white gold, abalone, jade, sapphires, and rock crystal, with only two iterations of each design produced.

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Toteme and CULTURED hosted a pre-Frieze week cocktail party at Toteme's Melrose Avenue flagship in West Hollywood. The intimate sunset gathering featured Ruinart champagne, Grey Goose martinis, and a curated collection of artworks by Swedish women artists, including pieces by Barbro Bäckström, Lisa Larson, and Alina Chaiderov. Guests included fashion tastemakers, arts patrons, interior designers, dealers, artists, and models, such as Christine Wuerfel-Stauss, Michelle Rubell, Yana Peel, Emma Webster, and Esther Kim Varet.